We’ll view a video about “How to Upload a Book to Amazon in 2025.” Please attend even if you know how. Maybe there will be tidbits you were unaware of or you can help explain anything the presenter didn’t make clear.
Coming in June: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Amazon Charts bestselling author Lauren K Denton talking about her publishing path.
Bio Per Laura Denton: I have a BS degree from the University of Tennessee, Secondary Education, History and Political Science.I enjoy the study of Military History of the United States, and focus my writing on that subject. I have published two books and am now working on my third. I am an avid amateur genealogist and have spent 25 years studying both my family’s history and my husband’s. I have two grown children and two grandchildren. I enjoy travel and reading and a little gardening in my spare time.
Presenter: Author Sarah Stilwell will be our guest speaker—she has a PowerPoint presentation on Author branding and book covers.
Future presentations:
June: LAUREN K. DENTON is the author of USA TODAY bestselling novels The Hideaway and Hurricane Season. She was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama, and now lives with her husband and two daughters in Homewood, just outside Birmingham. Though her husband tries valiantly to turn her into a mountain girl, she’d still rather be at the beach. Website: LaurenKDenton.com; Instagram: LaurenKDentonBooks; Facebook: LaurenKDentonAuthor; Twitter: @LaurenKDenton.
Presentation:
Maria Grace, six time BRAG Medallion Honoree, #1 Best-selling Historical Fantasy author Maria Grace has her PhD in Educational Psychology and is a 16-year veteran of the university classroom where she taught courses in human growth and development, learning, test development and counseling. https://austenvariations.com/maria-grace/ (Per her website)
Capture Your Reader in Your World
Readers read for escape and to feel. The means of escape and the feelings they desire depend on the genre, but in the end, readers want the same thing: An immersive world and characters to lose themselves in.
As we concentrate on characters and plot, it can be easy to short change the setting. But when that happens, the real world too easily distracts readers from the story world. Creating immersive, atmospheric settings is a first step to creating a world that the reader doesn’t want to leave.
In this workshop we will cover how to develop engrossing worlds through the use of POV, narrative distance, research (and how not to get lost in that rabbit hole!), sensory details, and the creation of deliberate memory tags for readers.
Presentation: PLOTluck – bring your problematic plot to the meeting and we’ll all pitch in to help improve it. At the same meeting, a lesson video will be presented.
NYT Best selling author Linda Howard will present 12 Steps to Intimacy.
You don’t want to miss this!
Presentation: Jo Chambliss
May – Jo Chambliss
June – NYT bestselling author Linda Howard presents 12 Steps To Intimacy
PROGRAM: Lynn Raye Harris to speak to the chapter via Zoom about sustaining indie publishing.
From her website: (https://lynnrayeharris.com/about/)
Lynn Raye Harris is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the HOSTILE OPERATIONS TEAM SERIES of military romances as well as 20 books for Harlequin Presents. A former finalist for the Romance Writers of America’s Golden Heart Award and the National Readers Choice Award, Lynn lives in Alabama with her handsome former-military husband, two crazy cats, and one spoiled American Saddlebred horse. Lynn’s books have been called “exceptional and emotional,” “intense,” and “sizzling.” Lynn’s books have sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
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